Comments on: Mickey Mouse MESSENGER Mercury

By: Faces on the brain | CosmoQuest Blog

Faces on the brain | CosmoQuest Blog — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:21:03 +0000

[...] In fact, once you start seeing faces, it’s hard to stop! And not just human faces, either. I’ve seen Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants on Mars, the Star Trek, Borg Queen on Mercury, and of course proof that NASA is Mickey Mouse organization. [...]

By: Neil

Neil — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 05:12:09 +0000

I see a melting Homer Simpson face. I guess the heat is too much even for fictional characters.

By: Hemo_jr

Hemo_jr — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 04:45:23 +0000

This news gets the #BadAstroHipster treatment
https://twitter.com/hemo_jr/statuses/213844310725107715

By: Anthony D.

Anthony D. — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 22:51:53 +0000

Come on everyone it looks more like a toddler playing with a ball. Rotate it 45° clockwise lol. Now you will never be able to see it as Mickey again. Hahahahahahaha lol

By: Joel Peterson

Joel Peterson — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:55:18 +0000

Undeniable proof that we have been visited by giant, extraterrestrial rodents.

By: Steve D

Steve D — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:21:16 +0000

Since craters on Mercury are named for great figures in the arts, calling the big one Walt Disney is wholly appropriate. Call one ear Roy Disney and the other Iwerks, after Ub Iwerks, one of Disney’s early animation creaw and co-creator of Mickey.

As for the ill-placed crater in Mickey’s forehead, call that one Eisner.

Oh, and for those who think “enmusculate” sounds like “muscle,” no accident. “Musculus” in Latin means “little mouse.” To see why, flex a bicep (if you can).

I don’t know about mus musculus, but swing by my house and you can have all the peromyscus leucopus (white footed mice) you want each fall.

By: MartyM

MartyM — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:18:55 +0000

Your apophenia is showing.

By: Matt B.

Matt B. — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:04:02 +0000

@14: Ah, thanks, Keith. I guess “mus” goes all the way back to proto-Indo-European. I’ll have to look up the declension and see if it’s like “sus” for “pig”.

By: Steve D

Steve D — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:51:15 +0000

“enmusculate?” It’s one of BA’s made up words like “embiggen.”

From “mus,” the Latin word for mouse.

When they find a mountain range that looks like Annette, call me.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:10:57 +0000

Wow, Disney is really taking advertising to a whole new world.